Still trying to catch up on photoshoots. This is from a week ago, my very first shoot with Virginia, and her first time modeling. I couldn’t be happier with what we came up with, and can’t wait to work with her again.
Lots more to come…
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A Taste of Virginia
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Still trying to catch up on photoshoots. This is from a week ago, my very first shoot with Virginia, and her first time modeling. I couldn’t be happier with what we came up with, and can’t wait to work with her again.
In particular, this is one of my favorite shots in a very very long time
Lots more to come…
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Virginia Portrait 2
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Still trying to catch up on photoshoots. This is from a week ago, my very first shoot with Virginia, and her first time modeling. I couldn’t be happier with what we came up with, and can’t wait to work with her again.
Lots more to come…
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Steph on swing
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Had a shoot today, and the last thing I want is to be 3 shoots behind on editing, so I decided it’d be best to stay up late and finish the last of my Steph and Mandie set.
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Mandie portrait 2
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Mandie and I had been meaning to shoot together again for months. Finally got around to it a couple weeks ago. Steph even came with me to do a rare modeling appearance herself. This is what we came up with.
More to come
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7-10-08
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Day 699 of 365 More.
You know, I’m pretty much just addicted to this whole self-portrait thing. I was talking to my mom the other day about the one day she’s missed, and the thing is, I don’t even know how to NOT take a picture. After 699 days, there’s a lot of days I don’t have ideas and just don’t really feel like it. But honestly, I don’t think I can even sleep through the night if I haven’t taken a picture. It’s just too much a part of my life right now.
I know that sounds like dedication. It’s not really. It’s neurosis. I have a problem. I obsess over certain things. This has become one of them. Just like smoking (ran out of cigarettes hours ago and everything reasonable is closed… I’m working really hard to not go out and buy a pack), working on the comic (new episode yesterday, if you haven’t been checking it out, you should be… cheap plug), nightly orgies with Carmen Electra, Rhianna and Elisha Cuthbert, and chocolate chip cookies.
There are just somethings that I can’t live without.
Wouldn’t it be great if those things were like working out, eating healthy, and solving the energy crisis? Oh well.
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6-10-08
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Day 669 of 365 More.
In some ways I miss last year. This time last year I was unemployed and looking for work. Looking for work only takes so much time out of your week, so the rest of the time I spent working on photography and working out like I was in prison.
I was in great shape.
I’m not anymore. I’m fat and flabby and generally just not comfortable in my body. I spend most of my day at work and most of my evenings working on the comic strip or the podcast. It doesn’t leave a lot of time for anything else.
Don’t get me wrong, I love doing the podcast and Hellcats is a childhood dream come true. I mean, I’d be happier with both of them if I had more of an audience, but I’m hopeful that will happen.
I just don’t much like looking in the mirror or looking at pictures of me anymore.
So I took a break tonight and did some weight lifting. I don’t really feel like I look any better, but it’s a start. I need to work on the strip some more tonight, but if I can do that and still convince myself to get up early tomorrow, maybe I’ll put in 30 min. on the elliptical.
It’s time to bring sexy back one more time.
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6-5-08
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Day 664 of 365 More.
You know, this staying up all night working on photography stuff was a lot easier before I had a job.
Last night I stayed up late to get the most recent Cosmic Hellcats comic posted and plan this out, but I was still in bed by 4am. I never thought I’d be up this late tonight. I wanted to be asleep by 2am. It’s now almost 6:30.
As I mentioned yesterday, this week’s podcast challenge was "collaboration." It was one I had been looking forward to, so I wanted to do something really big. I decided to write several of my favorite 365ers past and present and ask them to help me out with a photo.
Originally I was thinking I might do some kind of superhero thing, but I just wasn’t feeling it. Then I thought "I haven’t done a magazine cover in a while and this idea started to take shape.
Like any photographer, I’m a big fan of Annie Liebovitz. And like any photographer, I’d love a gig shooting for one of the big magazines. All the people you see here probably feel the same way. Looking over some of Liebovitz’s Vanity Fair covers, I figured out this was what I wanted to do. That’s what the sketch was about yesterday.
The sad thing is, I’m afraid a lot of people will just ignore this pic not realizing what’s going on. So I want to make sure everyone does know. The 10 people you see here, 9 of my favorite 365ers and all people I consider friends are actually spread out across 8 different cities. Most of us have never met. I believe them all to be wonderfully talented individuals and remarkable people. And for the most part (with the exceptions of Steph and Mickey who I already knew), I owe my entire relationships with each one of them to this project. Today, through the magic of photoshop, we can all appear together. I hope that one day we can take this shot in real life.
Thank you to Mikey, Mickey,James, Jessi, Steph, Jason, Jack, Nicole and Kat for doing this with me. You guys are great. Sorry it took so long. Please check out all of their streams and see their wonderful work.
Now I’m going to sleep for an hour and a half and go to my real job.
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6-2-08
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Day 661 of 365 More.
This is a story of hope. A very short story because I am watching the game.
I’m not a huge hockey fan (not like football), but I do enjoy it. And when I watch, I root for the Pittsburgh Penguins. As I’ve mentioned in previous recent shots, the Pens are currently in the Stanley Cup Finals. And they haven’t been doing well. in a best of 7 series they are down 3 games to 1. Win or go home.
Tonight, they were down 3-2. The fans were singing victory songs in the final minute. Steph and I were on the edge of our seats just hoping and hoping.
With less than 35 seconds of regulation play, 35 seconds away from a world chamipionship, the Detroit Redwings gave up a goal.
At this very moment, we our now in overtime (took this shot during the break).
Keep hope alive!
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Leia 7
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Trying to catch up on more photoshoot photos. Here’s some more from my series with Leia. Still more to come, hopefully I get to them sooner rather than later.
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Leia 4
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It was a rare night at home when I wasn’t overwhelmed with working on Cosmic Hellcats so I decided to spend the evening working on my backlog of photoshoots to edit. This is Leia who posed for the Four of Cups in my tarot deck. I took plenty of extra shots of her, so it’s about time I started posting some.
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Leia 3
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It was a rare night at home when I wasn’t overwhelmed with working on Cosmic Hellcats so I decided to spend the evening working on my backlog of photoshoots to edit. This is Leia who posed for the Four of Cups in my tarot deck. I took plenty of extra shots of her, so it’s about time I started posting some.
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5-29-08
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Day 657 of 365 More.
So, like I said, I got fan art from Helder. It’s posted on the Cosmic Hellcats website so check it out.
Went to my weekly poker game tonight. I’ve been playing really well lately. In fact, tonight I’d say that I played better than anyone else. I had the chip lead pretty much the entire night. And then I lost it all in a series of bad breaks right at the end. So 3 hour of poker and nothing to show for it. *sigh* Somebody up there definitely hates me.
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5-21-08
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Day 649 of 365 More.
It was a dark and stormy night. Business hadn’t been great. The dames were even worse. You know how it goes. I gave Miss Jones the night off and shut myself up in my office and decided to crawl inside a bottle of Old Number 7 and tried to wait it all out.
I heard the knock at the front door, but with no Miss Jones to answer, I thought maybe if I just stayed quiet whoever it was would go away.
No such luck.
That’s when she walked in. A pretty face, stems up to here and a rack that could cause traffic accidents. The dame wore red. She smelled like money. She said she needed help. She said she could pay.
Her name was Trouble.
Or it might as well have been. I could smell it a mile away. You could have driven a ’49 Olds through the holes in her story. But what was I gonna do? A man could get lost in those eyes for days and I’m a sucker for a pretty face. Besides, this broad would do anything for my help and I hadn’t done the nasty in nearly a week. Sometimes you just gotta roll the dice and hope for the six the hardway. And sometimes you crap out.
My name is Philip Marlowe.
Trouble is my business.
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Sarah & Starr 16
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So tomorrow is Sarah‘s birthday. Since I’ve been way too busy to edit shots lately, I decided to take some time tonight to finish up the last of the shots from her photoshoot with Starr.
Hopefully she thinks they’re as hot as I do.
Happy Birthday, luv.